MUB_003 History of Museums in the World II.

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Otakar Kirsch, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Pavel Holman (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Otakar Kirsch, Ph.D.
Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Lucia Miškolciová
Supplier department: Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 5. 3. 9:00–12:40 TMB, Thu 26. 3. 9:00–12:40 TMB, Thu 16. 4. 9:00–12:40 TMB, Thu 7. 5. 9:00–12:40 TMB
Prerequisites
MUB_002 World History of Museums I.
MUB_002 History of Museums in the World I.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main objectives of the course are the following:
making students aware of history of collecting and museums;
making students aware of changing of private cabinets to public museums;
making students aware of contemporary museums by their history
Learning outcomes
- identify a descibe significant attribute of main period of colleting history;
- compare difference between approaches to collecting in particular periods;
- know significants collections and collectors in particular periods;
- analyse sources from ancient times and middle ages and current piece of knowludge about collecting
Syllabus
  • Collectiong in renaissance and barocque time, situation in society, natural sciences and collections, collections an resources of natural sciences, theoretical books about cabinets,guides.
  • Famous collectors and theirs collections - Hapsburgs, Medicis, Wettins, Wittelsbachs, John Tradescant, Olaf Worm, Athanasius Kircher, Danish kings etc.;
  • Enlightement and collecting, first museum - Basel, Oxford.
  • 18th century - from caninets to public museums, prerequisities in society.
  • French revolution and museums.
  • Political, social and economical situation in society and birth of museums. Special museums, iínfluence of nationalism.
  • Museum's theory, leading representatives.
  • Museums in 20th sentury.
  • Museums in the beginning of new millenium.
Literature
  • Pearce, Susan - Martin, Paul: The collector's Voices. 4th Vol. Contemporary Voices. 1. vyd. Aldershot - Burlington - Singapore - Sydney, Ashgate 2000
  • Crane, Susan A. (ed.): Museums and Memory. 1. vyd. Stanfor, Stanford University Press 2000
  • Wittlin, Alma S.: Museums. In Search of a Usable Future. 1. vyd., Cambridge (USA) - London (UK), The MITPress, 1970, s. 279
  • Baumstark, Reinhold (her.): Thurn und Taxis Museum Regensburg. Höfische Kunst und Kultur. 1. vyd. München, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum - Klinkhardt & Biermann 1998
  • Pearce, Susan - Flanders, Rosemary - Hall, Mark - Morton, Fiona: The Collector's Voices. 3rd Vol. Imperial Voices. 1.vyd. Aldershot - Burlington - Singapore - Sydney, Ashgate 2000
  • Haupt, Herbert: Das Kunsthistorisches Museum. Die Geschichte des Hauses am Ring. Wien, Christian Brandstätter Verlag 1991
  • Další literatura dle zadání
  • Murray, David: Museums. Their History and Their Use. 1. vyd., Glasgow, James MacLehose and Sons 1904, s. 340
  • Major, Johann Daniel: Unvorgreffliches Bedenken von Kunst- und Naturalienkammer. 1. vyd., Kiel 1674
  • Greenwood, Thomas: Museums and Galleries. (reprint) London, Routledge/Thoemmes Press 2001
  • Luchinat, Cristina Acidini - Scalini, Mario (her.): Die Pracht der Medici. Florenz und Europa. 1. vyd. Wien, KHM, 1999
  • Holst, Niels van: Creators, collectors and connoisseurs. 1. vyd., London 1967
  • Neickelius, Caspar Friedrich: Museographia. 1. vyd. Leipzig 1727
  • Elsner, John - Cardinal, Roger: The Cultures of Collecting. 1. vyd. London. Reaktion Books 1994
  • Pearce, Susan - Arnold, Kenneth: The Collector's Voice. 2. vol. Early Voices. Aldershot - Burlington - Singapore - Sydney, Ashgate 2000
  • McClellan, Anrew: Inventing the Louvre. Berkely - Los Angeles - London, University of California Press 1999
  • Flower, William Henry: Essays on Museums. (reprint) London, Routledge/Thoemmes Press 2001
  • Edwards, Edward: Lives of the Founders of the Britisch Museum. (reprint) London, Routledge/Thoemmes Press 2001
  • Impey, Oliver - MacGregor, Arthur: The Origins of Museums. The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century Europe. 2. vyd. York, House of Stratus 2001
  • Rudolf II. a Praha : císařský dvůr a rezidenční město jako kulturní a duchovní centrum střední Evropy. Edited by Eliška Fučíková. Praha: Správa Pražského hradu, 1997, 386 s. : i. ISBN 80-902051-6-X. info
  • BELK, Russell W. Collecting in a consumer society. London: Routledge, 1995, v, 198 s. ISBN 0-415-10534-X. info
  • BENNETT, Tony. The birth of the museum : history, theory, politics. 1st publ. London: Routledge, 1995, x, 278 s. ISBN 0-415-05387-0. info
  • ASSMANN, Jan Nepomuk. Artis pictoriae amatores :[Baroko ve střední Evropě : květen 1992-květen 1993 : Národní galerie v Praze, Jízdárna Pražského hradu, 13.5.-12.9.1993. Edited by Lubomír Slavíček. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Národní galerie, 1993, 429 s. ISBN 80-7035-052-0. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
lectures, oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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